Lot Essay
The knot count is approximately 11H x 11V per cm. sq.
The inscription cartouche reads; baft Iran Isfahan Hekmatnejad (Majnouni); Woven in Isfahan by Hekmatnejad, (Majnouni).
Another master weaver producing carpets at the same time as the Seirafian workshop in Isfahan was Dr. Hekmatnejad who was equally respected and boasted the same popularity. These 20th century, finely woven, works of art by master weavers such as Haghighi, Amoghli and Seirafian were highly regarded by the last of the ruling shahs of Iran and it was with these pieces, not the earlier Safavid classical carpets, with which they chose to decorate their numerous palaces. Indeed this has always been the case. Sigismund Vasa, King of Poland, did not send his Armenian emissary to Kashan at the end of the 16th century to buy old carpets, but to commission new ones, some with his coat-of-arms inter-woven, as seen in the following two lots in the present sale.
The inscription cartouche reads; baft Iran Isfahan Hekmatnejad (Majnouni); Woven in Isfahan by Hekmatnejad, (Majnouni).
Another master weaver producing carpets at the same time as the Seirafian workshop in Isfahan was Dr. Hekmatnejad who was equally respected and boasted the same popularity. These 20th century, finely woven, works of art by master weavers such as Haghighi, Amoghli and Seirafian were highly regarded by the last of the ruling shahs of Iran and it was with these pieces, not the earlier Safavid classical carpets, with which they chose to decorate their numerous palaces. Indeed this has always been the case. Sigismund Vasa, King of Poland, did not send his Armenian emissary to Kashan at the end of the 16th century to buy old carpets, but to commission new ones, some with his coat-of-arms inter-woven, as seen in the following two lots in the present sale.